Over 1,300 potential kit designs were submitted to the German club after they announced they were opening the floor to their fans, with an eight-shirt short-list eventually settled upon… Over 7,000 votes were then cast with 14-year-old Fabian Thamm’s brilliant design (kit 8, bottom right) proving to be far and away the most popular – attracting over 34% of the ballots.

Thamm, who was presented with two free season tickets for winning, will now set about holding a number of meetings with the creative team at Adidas later this month to **** over the fine details of the design before the shirt is put into production in time for next term.

Now, if Wolfsburg themselves could just set about re-appointing Wolfgang Wolf…